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I'm sorry guys, I see you made a great work. But until it goes to visual programming kind of things it will look like SQL-like language, which I like btw. But visual would be a really next step keep on with those things. And world-like document is really a great idea. Thank you.


From: http://timurtatarshaov.me/it-city.html Some period of my life I’ve been traveling many times between two cities in Russia and was entertaining myself guessing what city my next seat train travelers are from. And 9 out of 10 I was right.

Explanation is simple if in one city, let’s say fountains are on the every corner and in another they are not, you would be able to spot the difference between those two persons from the different cities even though you don’t know the exact reason(fountains, rocks, rivers, etc.). So every city does have an energy.

Another thing about the nature is a rivers. Water passing through has a huge impact on the people living nearby. Water takes and refreshes the energy. I’ve been living for some time in the city with two small rivers and could spot the difference compared to the city with the wider river. Water refreshes the people taking the entry and in ‘small rivers’ city people were more mean keeping negatives for longer.

Recently I had a conversation with one girl working in the european conferences organization company and she named several cities where events are more common. The reason for that was transportation hub, including air transport connection mostly and roads as well.

So contemporary cities even though they are not tied to goods transportation along the river are connected to the air lines hubs a lot.

So I would state 3 things: nature, transport, history.

There is one good example of the city made by the power of will of one man, city is St. Petersburg, it is a really good example for research. Such thing as a soil was imported to make it possible.

I’m not saying it’s not possible, but saying you should mind milling of things and the only possible way to have it is to have perfect internal sense.


They are mentioned in original PDF on page 7 http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/43080/Postgr.... Mentioned as a company and a product, that has lots of add ons on top of PostgreSQL for reliability, distributed computing and operability.


So it is strange for me even if I understand GPL. Does it means all the network routers running custom linux have to provide sources of entire modification? I assume if we want companies to make use of linux on a wide level, there should be the ways to overcome this problem(if exists).


No. There is a boundary between the "kernel" which is strictly GPL and the "user" operating system which is (in its interaction with the kernel) based on LGPL and weaker libraries. So these routers have to distribute changes they make to the kernel, yes, but not any and everything that runs on the router.


Makes sense, thank you for explanation.


> Does it means all the network routers running custom linux have to provide sources of entire modification?

That's pretty much what happened to Linksys.

[1]: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391/The...


> Does it means all the network routers running custom linux have to provide sources of entire modification?

Yes.

> I assume if we want companies to make use of linux on a wide level, there should be the ways to overcome this problem(if exists)

What problem? Making the source code of the programs you distribute to your clients available is not a problem - it's an obligation you agreed with when you used the GPL'ed program as a basis for your own.

You could do like Sony, who used *BSD on the PS4.


Good point, thank you.


What's the problem?


First is security, if current asset based on linux is vulnerable and you make it public consequences are obvious. Or even your system is vulnerable itself because of modifications. Or 0day that will reveal afterwards. And your product is based on embedded systems. I understand it's your choice, but it holds the development.

Second is competitive advantage. If you have to release modified system, that you use in your product on day 0, when you started, it interfere your business. Again it's your choice, but it could hold the development. So reasonable alternative would be good.


If you choose to use code that is under the GPL or similar copyleft licenses, then you have to play by the rules and provide people you distribute your software to a way to get the source code.


Yes, I understand


But it's much better if comment by zmmmmm is correct and it only touches kernel modifications.


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Valuable suggestions... Thank you.


Y Combinator. How to apply successfully guideline. It’s a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting.


It mostly to attract attention to my late application to be honest


book looks like scanned(including type) but text is selectable. how does it work?


I'm confused. What is setting you off?

That seems to be scanned, yes. Then you run a full page OCR engine to extract the text _with bounding rectangles_ and create a PDF with the page being the input image, embedding the OCR results as invisible text at the recognized positions.

It's something I do day in/day out in this line of business, requires no skill apart from a decent engine and a 'create your own PDF' library (iText/iTextSharp is cool, go and buy a license. Not affiliated, but I'm a happy user).


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